Altering Elvis

The IMDB reports via WENN that the late King of Rock n' Roll's ex-wife Priscilla Presley "vetoed one scene in upcoming 41328.html" >Elvis miniseries, after insisting it was inaccurate."

Jonathan Rhys Myers, who plays Elvis opposite Antonia Bernath as Priscilla, advised WENN, "There was one scene Priscilla wasn't happy with because it was inaccurate. It was me sitting on the bed with Priscilla explaining why I didn't find her attractive after the child was born &#Array; and so we corrected that."

Having now seen an early cut of the CBS miniseries, I can confirm that there was such a scene in it. (Look for my review of Elvis at the end of this week.)

Meanwhile, The Detroit News spoke with Rhys Meyers and Randy Quaid about their roles as Elvis and his manager Col. Tom Parker, respectively. "He was fidgety; he never stopped moving," the young Irishman said of the King.

Rhys Meyers believes that, "Without Colonel Parker, Elvis would have never been Elvis. ... He created the first real rock star."

For Quaid, Parker "was an enigma. ... I sort of knew he came from a carnival background. I thought he was from the South." In fact, Parker wasn't even his real name and he was an illegal immigrant from Holland.